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from the Luminarya blog

With the meteoric rise of companies such as Zara and H&M, the world of high street fashion has changed beyond all recognition in recent years. Big fashion companies are churning out garments in mass quantities and at break-neck speed, their new stock no longer adhering to a ‘season’ but being delivered to stores as often as every day. Nothing is made to [...]

The Economics of Happiness is about the urgent need for a real decentralisation of power.
Localising, as most of you know, is what Gandhi was talking about. So we are not talking about anything new. What is new however is the latest incarnation of globalisation. And what we are saying is that we urgently need a counterbalance to globalisation, and that lo[...]

Haiku
What I want is your
Tongue inside my mouth, writing
A poem upon mine.
Catriona Mitchell: Sharanya, yours is an unmistakably female voice: this is a core characteristic of your work. Is your writing primarily motivated by a wish to express a female-centric viewpoint? If so, is your poetry then driven by gender politics?
Sharanya Maniv[...]